TREPAL, GEORGE: Crime Stories TV - The Ledger online -
A mysterious illness strikes a Florida family and police fear foul play. An unlikely suspect surfaces. Crime Stories: Mind Games
The poison is Thallium. ibid.
Trepal is charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder. ibid.
Twenty years ago Sunday, George James Trepal stood silently and with no expression as Circuit Judge Dennis Maloney sentenced him to die for poisoning his neighbor.
For 20 years he’s maintained he had nothing to do with the death of Peggy Carr.
For 20 years he has filed appeals and motions, all of which have been returned with the same decision: Denied.
Trepal, now 62, has an appeal pending before the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. If that’s denied, he can go to the US Supreme Court, but that’s his last option.
So Trepal, who has been on death row longer than any of Polk’s current roster of condemned murderers, waits. So does Duane Dubberly, who wishes every day that his late mother could know his wife and could see he’s turned his life around. So does Gelena Dubberly Kent, whose son will never know his grandmother. The Ledger online article 4th March 2011
TREVOR, JOSEPH: What the Killer Did Next TV -
A shocking discovery, The hunt for a killer. The motive: a mystery. What the Killer Did Next s1e1: Megan Newton, Sky Crime 2022
20th April 2019, Stoke on Trent: A phone call from some members of the public: they had found a dead body within a flat, a female that had been stabbed a number of times. ibid. rozzer
She [Megan Newton] been strangled … She was raped and stabbed in her back and behind her neck nine times. ibid.
Joseph Trevor was arrested in connection with Megan’s murder. ibid.
TRIMBOLI, RONALD: True Crime Recaps TV -
A gruesome triple homicide in a quiet Arlington neighbourhood led to one of the most sensational in Texas history. True Crime Recaps: The Gruesome Triple Homicide that Shocked Texas, Youtube 17.28, 2023
Joanne stumbled into a site no mother should ever see, the scene was a bloodbath. There were spots of blood spattered on the telephone, a blood-stained sock lay near the pull-out couch bed. She found Renee curled up on the bathroom floor … In the tiny laundry room she found the body of 17-year-old John Bradley. ibid.
In the crowd was 40-year-old Ronald Trimboli … The Grand Jury indicted him for murder. ibid.
Did they get the right guy when they put away Ron Trimboli? ibid.
TRUJILLO, ANA: Women Who Kill TV -
After a night out Ana and Stefan had an argument … ‘I hit him with my shoe [x25] and now he’s bleeding.’ Women Who Kill I, Ana’s 911 call, Channel 4 2017
Ana Trujillo murdered her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times with her stiletto shoe. Formerly an exec at Coca Cola and a mother of two, the 45-year-old’s life plummeted and she found herself homeless. In 2009 she moved to Houston where she started to use men for money. She soon met 59-year-old Stefan Andersson and moved in with him.
She tells us that he had a foot fetish and liked her wearing high heels. Then, in 2013, Ana and Stefan had an argument in the back of a taxi after which she desperately called the police, telling them that she had been attacked. A jury later found her guilty of killing her boyfriend using a blue stiletto with a five-and-a-half inch heel, likening it to ‘an ice pick’. Refinery 29 online article
TRUNK MURDERS: Great Crimes & Trials TV - News report -
1927 ... Staff at the left luggage office noticed a particularly unpleasant smell coming from one of the trunks that had been there for some time. They prised it open and found a dismembered body of a woman. Great Crimes & Trials s3e18: The Trunk Murders, BBC 1996
Anything that could identify her had been removed. ibid.
[John] Robinson immediately began to confess. He admitted picking up a woman who had accosted him at Victoria Station and taking her back to his office. ibid.
He admitted most of the details of the case against him but repeated his insistence that the woman had died accidentally from a knock to the head. ibid.
Only seven years later and also on the railways of southern England trunks were in the news again: This time it was in the resort town of Brighton. On 17th June 1934 staff at the station left luggage office were appalled by the smell coming from one of the trunks. They opened it and found the torso and arms of a young woman. Other stations were alerted and the next day a case containing the legs was found at Kings Cross Station in London. ibid.
By the evening of the 17th Mancini had been charged with the murders. It now emerged that his real name was Cecil Lois England and that he had a string of minor convictions and aliases in London. ibid.
They [the jury] were back in two and a half hours and found him not guilty. ibid.
In November 1976 Mancini, who had been living quietly with his third wife, suddenly confessed in the News of the World that he had indeed murdered Violet. ibid.
The other Brighton trunk murder was never solved. ibid.
Important Trunk Murder Clues: Police On Track Of Dark Handsome Man: Strange Behaviour After Buying Trunk At Brixton: Full Description Known. News report cited ibid.
TSARNAEV BROTHERS: The Hunt for the Boston Bombers TV - Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing TV - Breaking History: New Age of Terror TV - Days that Shaped America TV -
‘And we will find out who did this ... will feel the full weight of justice.’ The Hunt for the Boston Bombers, Barach Obama, Channel 4 2014
‘The captured suspect had been hit by a car, and shot: he died from his injuries.’ ibid. rozzer
264 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing. Three were killed. ibid. caption
‘Today the nation’s oldest marathon will be run for the 117th time. Some 27,000 runners from all over the world are expected to run Boston this year.’ Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing, morning news, HBO 2016
‘Oh my God. My God. We’ve had an explosion on the marathon course. People on the finish line. Two explosions went off. One after the other.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Two devices. Two hundred yards apart. That’s a big crime scene.’ ibid. FBI agent
‘Someone beside me said he saw a red flash. Others close by told me they felt the spray of what they thought were shards of shrapnel. My ears were ringing from the blast, my eyes stinging from the smoke. ibid.
‘Time felt like it had slowed down – the disorientation, the confusion, the strange silence stealing my breath and delaying my ability to comprehend’. ibid. newspaper report
‘Becomes known to us as White Hat; we expand out that triage of analysis and we find Black Cap also carrying a backpack.’ ibid. investigator
Boston police and the FBI combed through 120,000 photographs and almost 13,000 video clips … These terrorists were home-grown. Breaking History: New Age of Terror II
‘All of a sudden there was some sort of explosion. I looked down to the left; you could see a plume of smoke at the finish line … I took probably about two steps then I saw the two flashes of white light at my feet. I could feel myself being propelled … I instantly saw a severed foot in front of my left leg on the ground; it had a little white sock on it … I then instantly knew that was my foot that was dangling …’ Days that Shaped America s1e2: Boston Bombing, Roseann Sdoia, History 2018
‘It was surreal; it looked like a war zone.’ ibid. rozzer William Evans
‘We had the video, now we just needed to identify who they are.’ ibid.
TUCHLIN, PAWEL: Killers: Behind the Myth TV - Chicago Tribune online - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
Gdansk, northern Poland 1983: For the last eight years a serial sex killer – known as the Scorpion – has preyed on women in the area. Killers: Behind the Myth s1e5, 2013
Pawel Tuchlin – the killer known as Scorpion – is driven by perverse sexual urges stemming from his childhood. ibid.
Assaults twenty women – he murders nine of them. ibid.
The abuse and cruelty Tuchlin experiences as a child would play a key role in his murderous future. ibid.
Warsaw – A Polish court ordered the death penalty Monday for a 39-year-old electrician known as the Scorpion for an eight-year wave of sex attacks in which he battered 9 women to death with a hammer and injured 11 others.
Pawel Tuchlin, who is married with two children, took the sentence calmly, said Judge Grzegorz Bucholtz, who presided over the trial in Gdansk. Chicago Tribune online article 6th August 1985, ‘Pole to be Executed for 9 Sex Murders’
On December 8th 1982 Polish farmer Pawel Tuchlin snuck up on a 24-year-old woman walking home alone. He pulled out a hammer and hit her in the back of the head again and again … In all Tuchlin sexually assaulted and battered nine women to death with a hammer and he seriously injured 11 more. Police called him the Scorpion. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e8: Pawel Tuchlin aka The Scorpion, Pick TV 2018